Skirt-holder



A. EK.

SKIRT HOLDER.

APPLICATION H LED MAY 22. 19x?.

Patented Jan. 11, 1921.

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i INVENTOR mandaE/ UNITED STATES AMANDA EK, 0F GWINNER, NORTH DAKOTA.

SKIRT-HOLDER.

Application filed May 22,

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l'e 1t known that I7 AMANDA En, a citizen of the United States, residingat Gwinner, 1n.

the county of Sargent and State of North Dakota, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Skirt-Holders, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention is an improved skirt holder to enable a single belt to beused for any number of skirts and to hold a skirt in place and relievestrain on the waist band of the skirt, the object of my invention beingto provide an improved device of this character which is simple inconstruction and which can be readily removed from one skirt andattached to another.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangementof devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying, drawings Figure l is a perspective view of a skirtholder constructed and arranged in accordance with my invention, andshowing the same applied to a skirt.

Fig. 2 is a detailed elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a transversesectional view of the same.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a plate l which may be ofthe form here shown or of any other suitable form, and which is adaptedto be arranged on the inner side of a skirt, at the waist band. Theplate is provided near its ends with spaced openings 2 through which abelt 3 passes. By reason of such construction and belt threadingarrangement, the plate may be made to more perfectly conform throughoutits length to the shape assumed by thev belt when the latter is drawnabout the Waist and adjusted in position because such a provision ofbelt connection with the plate maintains the plate ends inktrueadjustment with the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 11, 1921.

1917. Serial N0. 170,287.

garment and belt to obviate the wear or injury to the garment or skirtwhich would otherwise be due to unconned plate ends. The belt isprovided with suitable fastening means at the ends, here shown as a hook4 and a ring 5 but any suitable fastening means may be employed for thebelt and to enable the same to be tightened or loosened as may bedesired.

Attaching devices 6 are also provided for the plate and which are to besewed to the waist band of the skirt. The plate is detachable from thefastening devices and hence maybe removed from the skirt and employed inanother, at will, each skirt with which the holder is to be used beingprovided with the fastening devices. The fastening devices are hereshown as metal tabs to hook over the plate. The plate and the attachingdevices are preferably made of aluminum but may be made of any suitablematerial.

Having thus described my invention, I claim z A skirt support comprisinga longitudinally curved elongated metallic plate having its end portionsprovided with pairs of spacedl transversely extending slots7 a beltslidably extending through said slots and flatly contacting with theouter side of said elongated plate, said elongated plate being of agreater width than the width of said belt for presenting a relativelywide bearing surface to the body of the wearer, and a plurality ofspaced fastening devices overhanging said elongated plate and detachablyengaged with the inner side of the same, said spaced fastening devicesbeing secured to a garment and movable with relation to said elongatedplate.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

AMANDA EK.

